Course Assistance for High School Students
Here are a few great links to places rich with resources to help you complete assignments.
Refdesk.com: This has everything! Reference Resources are at the very bottom of the page. The most important link there is Homework Helper, which is organized by grade level and by subject. There is a large list of Tools for Research. On the mission page of the website, the author says, "Refdesk's database is on three levels: quick, studied and deep. For thumbnail snapshots: Fast Facts, Quick Reference / Research, and Facts Subject Index. For a more studied approach: Newspapers - USA & Worldwide, Search Engine Resources, Internet Help, and Writing Web Documents. For an in-depth exploration: Facts Encyclopedia with over seventy volumes of indexed subjects and Facts Subject Index with 24 subject categories." (http://refdesk.com/mission.html)
Answers.com: A free, ad-supported, reference search service with instant answers about more than a million topics. They provide a list of links for you to follow for snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Their editors take their content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality.
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University: Everything you need from grammar and punctuation to writing and referrence style guides.
Guide to Grammar and Writing: This website has descriptions of parts of speech and quizzes you can take that get scored for you.
Math.com: Dedicated to providing revolutionary ways for everyone to learn math. Offers great practice sessions. Click on the Math Practice tab at the top, then select the Practice Subject you want. This is an ads-sponsored website; we have no affiliation with any of the advertisers. You can use these math tools without having to buy anything or enter in any personal information.
Interactive Algebra: Solving equalities, inequalities, factoring binomial and trinomials, graphing ordered pairs and slopes.
Martindale's Calculators Online Center: The most extensive website for calculators of any kind!
College Prepatory Mathematics: Click on "Skill Builders" and then the level of math you want to get a printable document with examples of concepts followed by problems you can work and the solutions.
Illuminations (Math Tools): A large set of interactive tools to graphically represent math for algebra and geometry.
Wikipedia: A free online encyclopedia, containing entries on traditional encyclopedic topics and an almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Wikipedia is a very popular reference site, getting around 60 million hits a day. It is edited by volunteers from a "neutral point of view." Because of its open nature, vandalism and inaccuracy are problems in Wikipedia. So use it with caution. It has been praised for being free and criticized for alleged systemic biases, preference of consensus to credentials, deficiencies in some topics, and lack of accountability and authority when compared with traditional encyclopedias.